Mark Cozad is a senior international defense researcher at RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

The Supreme Court ruling on the TikTok divest-or-ban law weighs national security concerns against the platform's First ...

Karyn Eliot is a retired CIA senior executive with extensive experience in US national security science and technology programs, intelligence operations, acquisitions, policy, and strategic industry ...

The Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert . He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Jack Ford Shanghai Mystery [BH1] , which was recently named Earnshaw ...

Ambassador Michael Carpenter is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe at the National Security ...

Whether a President is serious, particularly one like [President-elect] Donald Trump, he says a lot of things he doesn’t follow up on. He also [...] More ...

The seismic change in Syria could be a catalyst for greater alignment between Iran, Russia, North Korea and China.

John McLaughlin is the Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He served as both Acting Director and Deputy Director of the ...

For its part, the Biden administration is using its final days to, as it has said, surge as much aid to Ukraine as it can.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...

Brigadier General Gwyn Armfield (Ret.) recently completed nearly three decades of service in the US Air Force. He is the founder of RGA Consulting Group which advises clients on leadership, risk ...

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently ...